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Creating Increased Brand Love and Profits in an Age of Disruption Jeff Fromm, Author of Marketing to Millennials and Executive Vice President of Barkley U.S., brings out the details on understanding trends about millennials. Mr. Fromm highlights the myths that many believe to be true and offers that those myths are not all true. Mr. Fromm offers a set of questions and tools to help people understand the millennial trends and develop plans to evolve to meet those people where they are now and in the future.

John Graettinger, Director Food Chain Affairs, Merck Animal Health, aims to address the question of "Will consumers accept new agriculture technologies?" Mr. Graettinger states that consumers do not understand what agricultural technologies exist today and how they work.

Mr. Graettinger offers several examples on how the names of many technologies are not well formed and scare consumers. Mr. Graettinger suggests several changes and challenges people to frame the customer's needs into the messages companies share.

"Is there a problem in feeding 9 billion people?" - "Only if you want to eat."

Mandy Hagan, Vice President, State Affairs and Grassroots, Grocery Manufacturers Association, asks the core question of "Is there a problem in feeding 9 billion people?" and rhetorically answer it with "Only if you want to eat".

Can science help consumers with respect to food and agriculture? Maybe not.

Kim Essex, Senior Vice President, Director, North American Food Practice, Ketchum, shares the stories that science does not always resonate well for consumers with respect to food and agriculture. Using the lead around the idea of "if only everyone recognized farmers' need to feed the world", Ms. Essex looks at what Food 2020 looks like and the messages that consumers hear.

Her take aways: 1) Be a listener, 2) Acknowledge concerns, and 3) Take actions that demonstrate authenticity and accountability.

How importance are the international beef markets? Are there any growth opportunities? Dr. Schultz highlights various metrics and how they can be the information to help drive international beef growth.

Dr. Lee Schultz, Iowa State University, talks about the importance of the international beef markets and the growth opportunities that can happen. There are elements of trust that needs to be nurtured over time to help grow the beef markets. Dr. Schultz highlights various metrics of Iowa beef and how they can be the information to help drive international beef growth.

What do beef producers need to do with marking programs to take advantage of record cattle prices?

Dr. Derrell Peel, Oklahoma State University, looks to help producers with marking programs to take advantage of record cattle prices. Dr. Peel talks about the risk and market factors beef producers need to understand and look for opportunities.

Dr. Peel advises that 2015 will continue to have strong prices and herds rebuilding will continue. He also suggests that there will be margin squeeze for feedlots and packers.

From the 2014 National eXtension Conference in Sacramento, California, Amy Hays is a Texas AgriLife Extension Service emerging technologies specialist, who uses Instagram to spark conversations and inform farmers and ranchers.

Instagram Story Telling Amy Hays points out that Instagram is more than just a social picture sharing tool. From the 2014 National eXtension Conference March 24 - 28, 2014, Sacramento, California, USA.

Jamie Burr, Tyson Fresh Meats, shares ideas on what it means to help consumers understand pork, raising pigs, and maintaining business viability over time. Mr. Burr offers information on what sustainability means for pork producers and how to help people learn more.

What is the underlying reason a shopper picks up one product over another in a grocery store? What are people's preferences before, during, and after they go to the grocery?

Anne-Marie Roerink, Principal at 210 Analytics, shares consumer meat and produce buying trends from 2014 Power of Meat study. This info was presented at the 2014 FMIConnect conference in Chicago, Illinois.

In the USA the numbers of people directly involved in agriculture are a small percentage of the total population. But people are concerned about food based on reporting and coverage in the media. What are some of those consumer conversations and where are companies across the food ecosystem headed?

Agriculture is becoming more than just growing corn, soybeans, cattle, chickens, and pigs. There are many players in agriculture beyond the farm to help organize produce, deliver supplies, develop products, and distribute to sellers. Farm products are transformed into various food products delivered through a variety of outlets.

How to use Google Analytics Intro to Google Analytics by Blerina Sanocki, Sr. Account Manager, Google, from the 2013 BlogPaws Conference. Google Analytics provides valuable information about what people are doing as they visit your web sites. Remember that Google Analytics is a tool with many features. Blerina shares some of the high-level approaches to using the tool to build your site's audience and achieve your goals.

When you think of agriculture and technology, many people invision tractors. Yes, tractors are some of the technology farmers and ranchers use. But other technologies, like information technology and biotechnology, as also key tools needed for agriculture to succeed.

This year's National Institute for Animal Agriculture conference provided a cross-section of the livestock industry unlike any other event. Gathered in one location are Beef, Dairy, Swine, Poultry, Sheep, Goats, Aquaculture - every important segment of meat protein production in the U.S.

What medium do you need to use for your agriculture marketing campaign? Is radio better than print? Is digital the future! What should you do?

Angie Skochdopole from AdFarm leads a panel discussion on media mix for marketing professionals. The panelists include Becki Rhodes with the National Association of Farm Broadcasters; Lisa Schneider with Penton Media; and Holly Martin with the High Plains Journal. From the National Agri-Marketing Association Annual Conference, April 17 - 19, 2013, Kansas City, MO, USA.

How can farmers and ranchers expand their ring of connectedness to people not in agriculture?

Ray Prock and Jeff Fowle, both California farmers and ranchers, provide a perspective on the evolution of digital and social media in agriculture and the need to connect with people not familiar with farming and how food is raised.

"I think we've reached the time where the ability to create an app for some online feature that is useful to people outside of agriculture is going to be the next focus" says Jeff Fowle